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I rode the bus home from school every day with the same girls from my second-grade class. I wanted them to be my friends so bad — I mean, these were the popular girls! So, when they kinda started to make fun of me a little, I let it slide. However, the day they told me […] More
If the first time you heard about Kegels wasn’t in the episode of Sex and the City when Samantha reads about vaginal weights in a magazine (from which comes one of the best lines in Samantha history: “Honey, my vagina ‘weights’ for no man!”), you probably don’t have a solid foundation of what it is […] More
When you’re in the throes of online dating (or any kind of dating!), it’s easy to want to make something work. You get excited at the slightest hint of someone normal, someone who can hold a conversation, someone — dare I say — cute?! So, you put on those rose-colored glasses and rationalize behavior that should be […] More
Does your after-work routine go something like this: You take one step inside, immediately whip off your bra and put on the comfiest sweats you own before settling in front of the TV and ordering takeout? #Same. All of my grand plans for getting ahead of work, doing a load of laundry, and cooking a […] More
When I got my IUD in 2016, I really wasn’t sure what to expect. I knew I wanted a birth control method that would allow me to set it and forget it, and I wanted to get off of the pill in case the recent political climate caused birth control prices to go up. Time […] More
So you know the benefits of an anti-inflammatory diet, and you probably know that inflammation is the way your body reacts to foreign invaders. Chronic inflammation can be caused by everything from stress to pesticides to air pollution, and show up in the body as acne, chronic disease, brain fog, digestive issues, and more. Anti-inflammation […] More
Whether you’re single and ready to mingle, in a relationship that has its normal ups and downs, or in a marriage that borders on “roommate” territory from time to time, you probably see that there could be some improvement in your love life. Don’t be discouraged — even the best relationships and the happiest daters […] More
What’s keeping you up at night? Is it tomorrow’s big meeting? Or, possibly, that one time you called your teacher “mom” in third grade? Maybe it’s the devastating breakup of your favorite boy band or the fact that the bees are dying at an alarming rate. Perhaps the problem lies within your sleep environment. Maybe your […] More
